If you’ve already submitted your 2014 book(s) for Lambda Literary Award (Lammy) consideration, please don’t wait until the last minute to ship us your books. We are entering the winter holiday season and the post office is about to be overwhelmed with packages. If your books are lost or delayed in transit, they may not make it to the judges in time.

If you have not submitted your 2014 book(s) for Lammy consideration yet, please don’t sabotage your chances–or your author’s chances–of winning a Lammy by missing these important deadlines:

The Lammy submission deadline for books published in 2014 is midnight December 1st, 2014. The submission form is here.

If your book is being published between December 1st and December 31st, you still need to submit it online by December 1st at this link. You must also request an extension from awards@lambdaliterary.org, which will provide you with a grace period to send the books as soon as they are printed.

The deadline for Lambda Literary’s Mid-Career Novelist Prize is midnight, December 15th, 2014. The application is available here.

The deadline for Lambda Literary’s Emerging Author Prize is midnight December 15th, 2014. The application is available here.